DEAN INGE.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19017, 7 August 1933, Page 9

DEAN INGE.

DECISION TO RETIRE. LEAVING ST. PAUL’S NEXT YEAR. Dean Inge, of St. Paul’s London, has decided to retire next year. He has held the Deanery since 1912. He Is 73, and it is his desire to seek rest and tranquility In the vicinity of Oxford. He stated that he was led to his decision by consideration of his advancing years. “But I shall be at St. Paul’s for at least another twelve months,” he added. At Cambridge, where he was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Jesus College, lie was regarded as one of the most brilliant scholars of his time, a reputation upon which, during his long term at St. Paul’s, he has super-imposed another —that of one of the time’s most outstanding figures, a great and fearless thinker, a merciless wit, a dauntless champion of the aristocracy of mind. Because of his intellectual aloofness, and more especially by reason, perhaps, of Ills unsentimental method of thought, lie has been called “misanthrope,” and dubbed “The Gloomy Dean,” Genealogists have declared that Dean Inge is descended from King Edward 111., in tiie 21st generation. They trace his pedigree through that monarch’s third son, the Duke of Clarence, whose granddaughter married Lord Percy, renowned as “Hotspur.”